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title: A short life, like a hamster's, can still be a happy one when the an… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics
description: A short life, like a hamster's, can still be a happy one when the animal is well cared for every day. Who acts: short life. A sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 9

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A short life, like a hamster's, can still be a happy one when the animal is well cared for every day.

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**Who acts:** short life · **What happens:** be, care · **To what, where:** happy one, animal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (short life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:9
# text = A short life, like a hamster's, can still be a happy one when the animal is well cared for every day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | a short life like a hamster | a happy one |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | present · passive |  | the animal |  |  | day | well *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:9`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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